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Why is anti-LGBTQ+ Senegal still getting to host the Youth Olympic Games? · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: First though, Why is anti-queer Senegal still getting to host
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  Speaker 2: the first ever Olympic event in Africa? Harsh new laws
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  Speaker 2: doubled the maximum prison time for gay sex to 10 years,
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  Speaker 2: with an investigation by Human Rights Watch now saying dozens
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  Speaker 2: of men have been arrested, plus claims of forced HIV
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  Speaker 2: testing and barriers to legal help. The Olympic Youth Games
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  Speaker 2: start in Dakar soon, but the Olympic Charter explicitly prohibits
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  Speaker 2: discrimination against LGBTQ plus people and commits host countries to
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  Speaker 2: respect human rights. Here's a couple of the lawmakers who
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  Speaker 2: voted for that new legislation earlier this year.
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  Speaker 3: Here in our Africa, here in Senegal, we don't accept
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  Speaker 3: this homosexuality. That's not in our culture, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Not in our tradition.
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  Speaker 3: We're a society with models, standards, chains of command and references.
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  Speaker 3: The fact is you have to accept that Senegal, like
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  Speaker 3: other African countries, cannot allow certain anti-values to develop in
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  Speaker 3: our culture.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to African news, Senegal, which is a mainly Muslim country,
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  Speaker 2: also criminalised the promotion or glorification of homosexuality back in March.
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  Speaker 2: 71 men are currently waiting to go on trial for
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  Speaker 2: acts against nature. Next, lawmakers in Hungary have voted to
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  Speaker 2: remove some of its anti-LGBTQ plus legislation brought in by
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  Speaker 2: former Prime Minister and Jabba the Hutt Tribute Act, Viktor Orban.
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  Speaker 2: A 2021 law restricted the portrayal of homosexuality and gender
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  Speaker 2: identity in content children could access, the usual nonsense equating
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  Speaker 2: being queer with paedophilia. There's more of Orban's handiwork still
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  Speaker 2: to be dealt with though, including a ban on legal
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  Speaker 2: gender recognition. And a massive homophobic banner has been displayed
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  Speaker 2: by feckless football fans during a big match in Greece.
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  Speaker 2: It happened as Olympiakos hosted Panathinaikos in the Super League.
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  Speaker 2: It was in a prominent position and shown repeatedly on television. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: one set of supporters were calling rival fans gay. The
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  Speaker 2: banner was allowed to remain in place for the entire game.
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  Speaker 2: even though European Soccer's governing body UEFA says it won't
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  Speaker 2: tolerate homophobia and anti-queer hate. There's more on our socials,
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